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Michelle Bonczek Evory

Michelle Bonczek Evory is the author of The Art of the Nipple (Orange Monkey Publishing 2013), Before Fort Clatsop (Finishing Line P, forthcoming), A Roadside Attempt at Attraction (Kalamazoo Friends of Poetry),and the textbook Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations(Open SUNY Press, forthcoming). Her poem “Entering the Body” appears in the 2013 Best New Poets anthology and her poetry has been published in over eighty literary journals and magazines, including cream city review, Green Mountains Review, Margie, New York Quarterly, Orion, and The Progressive. Her manuscript Through the Skin of This World was shortlisted for the Anthony Hecht Award through the Waywiser Press and her manuscript Where I Turn Bad was a semi-finalist for both the Miller Williams and Lexi Rudnitsky Awards. Last year her maniscript The Ghosts of Lost Animals was a finalist for the New American Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of the Sherwin W. Howard Award through Weber Contemporary West, the Jane Kenyon Award for poetry through Water~Stone Review, and The Consequence Prize through Consequences Magazine, and a grant from the Kalamazoo Arts Council. Her poem “Chilson Founder’s Day Harvest Festival” was Highly Commended by the Sentinel Literary Movement in London. In 2015, she and her husband poet Rob Evory were the innaugural Artists in Residence for the National Parks Arts Foundation at Gettysburg National Military Park. You can read an interview with Michelle and Rob about their experiences in Gettysburg at The Seminary Explores.

She has worked as an editor and reader for poetry publishers Eastern Washington University, Lost Horse Press, and New Issues Press, as well as the literary journals Third Coast, Willow Springs, and Redactions:Poetry & Poetics which she co-founded in 2002. In addition to the literary side of publishing, she has also worked as a freelance editor for the McGraw-Hill Companies.

Michelle received a PhD in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University, and an MA from State University of New York at Brockport. She has taught creative writing at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Spokane Valley Community College, and The Corbin Arts Center in Spokane, WA. She was an Assistant Professor of English at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania for two years, and a Visting Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. Currently she teaches literature and writing at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo Community College.